“It sounds like a lot when you summarize it, but I don’t do all of it every day. If you want to know the truth, most days I feel like I’m miserably behind and only doing about half of what I should be doing. But when you look back you can see that you’re building something. I think people who say ‘Don’t look back’ are crazy. I wouldn’t survive if I weren’t looking back and patting myself on the back all the time for making it this far.”
— Charity Shumway
“Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside,” is a safe rule for those who would always retain the good opinion of that all-powerful, but somewhat unintelligent, incubus, “the average person,” but the pioneer, the guide, is necessary. That is, if the world is to move forward.”
— Jerome K. Jerome
“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are done, we recognize one thing: that the human race has been badly manhandled, but that it has moved forward.”
— Victor Hugo
“Yes, a war is inevitable. Firstly, there’s you fellows who can’t be trusted. And then there’s the multitude who mean to have bathrooms and white enamel. Millions of them; all over the world. Not merely here. And there aren’t enough bathrooms and white enamel in the world to go round.”
— Ford Madox Ford
“The initial animosity between divergent approaches can be overcome if we realize that each has something to offer that the other lacks. We may weave them together into a new whole that is stronger than the sum of its parts.”
— Frans de Waal
“Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.”
— Zeno of Citium